The newly released FDLE investigative report into the disappearance at sea of 14-year-old friends contained revelations that shocked and dismayed the mother of one of the boys as they learned more about the other parents’ actions that day.

“From minute one, the question was out there, ‘Why didn't you call me, my son was in that boat, why didn't you give us the opportunity to save him?’" said Pamela Cohen’s attorney, Guy Rubin. “What was new in the report was the timeline.”

Rubin said the report, which concluded there was probable cause for negligence charges, opened the door to a whole new set of questions.

“All of the interaction that the family of Austin had, after the storm passed over and Pamela wasn’t notified, 911 wasn't notified - many hours passed by and those hours were so precious,” said Rubin.

JUPITER - The mother of one of two Tequesta teens lost at sea in 2015 is considering a lawsuit and fighting a court action she says would limit her ability to sue the other teen’s family, her attorney told The Palm Beach Post on Monday.

Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, were last seen sailing through the Jupiter Inlet on July 24, 2015. State reports made public last week found that a storm on the Atlantic forced their boat to sink and that an “egregious lapse in judgment and failure to exercise due care” let them head out into the Atlantic in those conditions.

The families have been adversaries in a lawsuit since December over a maritime law called the Limitation Act. The act limits the amount boat passengers can sue to the value of a damaged boat after it is salvaged.

The state opened a criminal investigation in December of Austin's mother for possible child neglect. Investigators found probable cause to charge Carly Black, but the state attorney said there was not enough proof "to satisfy the statutory language," the Palm Beach Post reported last week.

According to investigators, Black allowed the teens to "go offshore into the Atlantic Ocean, an inherently dangerous environment, in a minimally equipped 19-foot boat with a single outboard motor without adult or parental supervision," and without a radio or an emergency beacon that could have been used to find them.

Perry's parents said their son was not allowed to go offshore without adult supervision, and both families knew this, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report obtained by the Palm Beach Post.

Pamela Cohen, Perry's mother, is now considering a lawsuit against the other family, her lawyer told the newspaper.

"It is irrefutable that both Austin’s parents knew that Perry was not supposed to go out of the inlet unsupervised," Guy Rubin told the Palm Beach Post.

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — When James Noble died two weeks after being shot outside his home by a Vero Beach police officer responding to a possible prowler in 2011, the 70-year-old’s family called his death an “unjustified” use of force.

If we didn’t take these kinds of cases, you would never have the courts telling law enforcement what the appropriate confines are for constitutional behavior. The courts make decisions, and those decisions are then the law of the land, and police, law enforcement agencies, are supposed to abide by those decisions.

— Guy Bennett Rubin, Esq.

According to police reports, when Noble saw the officer, he pulled a .45-caliber handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the officer. Noble was shot in the chest after he failed to put the weapon down when ordered to do so. The officer was later cleared by a grand jury.

Noble’s family told a different version of events in a federal lawsuit filed against the Police Department, and later dropped, that accused the officer of improperly firing his weapon.

Physical clashes such as this between the public and local law enforcement either preceded or caused the deaths of 29 people in the past 16 years, state and court records show. Twenty fatal encounters on the Treasure Coast involved police gunfire later determined to be justified.

It’s too soon to know if Sunday’s shooting death in Gifford of Alteria Woods, 21, by members of the Indian River County Sheriff Office Special Weapons and Tactics team, also will be ruled as a justified use of deadly force. Records show her death is the first fatal officer-involved shooting in 2017 on the Treasure Coast.

Sheriff officials have said Woods was a bystander caught in an early morning firefight with law enforcement during a drug raid that also wounded a deputy and ended with the arrests of two father-and-son career criminals.

When these fatal incidents occur, most often during traffic stops or domestic disturbances, they can anger a community, launch criminal probes or prompt change. They also put a spotlight on the agency and its officers' conduct.

But they rarely spur the lawsuits agencies defend against most, and cost taxpayers the most to resolve.

A months-long TCPalm.com investigation into police encounters dating to 2000 shows that while Treasure Coast law enforcement agencies spent $1.6 million to settle claims related to six deaths involving police, they spent more than double that amount to settle claims accusing police of aggressive behavior.

A veteran of the West Palm Beach Police Department is suing a local doctor. She claims he left a 2-inch drill bit in her hip during surgery.

Briggid Larson says it wasn’t until 11 days after her surgery that she found out about it. Larson says she saw the drill bit on one of her X-rays.

Larson is suing Dr. Michael Cooney and the Palm Beach Orthopaedic Institute. Cooney has offices in West Palm, Palm Beach Gardens and Jupiter.

According to her attorney, Larson incurred more than $25,000 in additional medical bills for a second surgery to remove the drill bit. When the law firm Larson contacted reached out for compensation and reimbursement it says the doctor and his offices invoked an arbitration agreement Larson singed two years earlier.

Larson says she felt betrayed. "The doctor wants the patient to tell the doctor everything about the condition and the patient wants the truth from the doctor. This is a clear betrayal,” said Larson’s attorney Guy Rubin. A call to Dr. Cooney’s office for comment has not been returned.

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